Christopher Bell won the NASCAR Cup Series 4Ever 400 presented by Mobil 1 on Sunday to join Kyle Larson in the field for the Championship 4.
Both Bell and Larson qualified with their wins in the Round of 8 playoffs. The Round of 8 ends at Martinsville on Sept. 29. If any of the other six Round of 8 qualifiers win at Martinsville, they’re in. Otherwise points will fill the Championship 4 field.
The Championship 4 will be held at Phoenix on Nov. 5. The highest finishing driver among the Championship 4 qualifiers will be crowned the season’s Cup Champion.
Here’s a look at the points with one Round of 8 race to go:
NASCAR Cup Playoff Standings
x-Christopher Bell, Toyota, 4,110
x-Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 4,105
William Byron, Chevrolet, 4,126
Ryan Blaney, Ford, 4,106
Tyler Reddick, Toyota, 4,096
Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 4,089
Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 4,089
Mike Pryson covered auto racing for the Jackson (Mich.) Citizen Patriot and MLive Media Group from 1991 until joining Autoweek in 2011. He won several Michigan Associated Press and national Associated Press Sports Editors awards for auto racing coverage and was named the 2000 Michigan Auto Racing Fan Club’s Michigan Motorsports Writer of the Year. A Michigan native, Mike spent three years after college working in southwest Florida before realizing that the land of Disney and endless summer was no match for the challenge of freezing rain, potholes and long, cold winters in the Motor City.
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